PROSODIC AND SYNTACTIC TEXTUAL SEGMENTATION: INTERACTION IN CREATING ASSOCIATIVE MNESIC LINKS

Abstract

Speech units of different linguistic levels, especially those of prosody and syntax, frequently overlap; thus, the final word(s) of one word group, also making up the beginning of the next group, could act as a memory trigger. The objective of this study is to theoretically justify and experimentally assess the role of such a double segmentation and, more generally, of the overlapping of speech segments in creating useful associative mnesic links.